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Heart Disease (continued)

Treatment: Inpatient Mortality Following Heart Attack

Survival following admission for a heart attack reflects multiple patient factors, such as a patient's comorbidities, and health care system factors, such as the possible need to transfer hospitals in order to receive services. It may also partly reflect receipt of appropriate health services.

Figure 2.13. Deaths per 1,000 admissions with a heart attack as principal diagnosis, age 18 and older, 1994, 1997, and 2000-2002